criminal-act
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5710 | Philip Alejandro Powers, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-act criminal-law greater-evil justification-doctrine necessity-defense | Whether a person compelled to commit a criminal act to avert a greater evil can be denied the necessity defense if an alternative 'safer' method exist… |
| 23-5196 | James Calvin Massey v. Texas | Texas | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff | Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act—even one that is petty, predictable, and uncharged—is always an i… |
| 22-7311 | Randal Thomas Rosado v. Florida | Florida | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiple-prosecutions multiple-punishments negotiated-plea plea-bargaining same-offense sixth-amendment | Does a ten-count conviction under the same statute for a single act of filing one document violate the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment p… |
| 19-6872 | James Ray Clark v. UNC Hospitals, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cover-up criminal-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-liability institutional-cover-up medical-malpractice medical-misconduct medical-negligence negligence patient-rights | Has the surgeon committed a second criminal act by concealing the mistaken incision location and performing a second corrective surgery? |
| 18-9412 | Amin A. Rashid v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-act criminal-act-concealment due-process evidentiary-hearing exoneration fundamental-defect judicial-misconduct mail-fraud miscarriage-of-justice neutral-judge section-2255 standing | Whether Undisputed Evidence Suggesting That The Trial Judge Was Acting To Conceal A Criminal Act Committed By Prior Judges In The Case Which Act If Ad… |
| 18-8611 | Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway | Texas | 2019-03-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction | Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a cri… |